MCL Technologies Expands Offering to Support Symbol's New WT4000 Wearable Terminals

MCL Technologies today announced the release of its industry-leading MCL- Collection and MCL-Collection with Vocollect Voice(TM) for Symbol Technologies' new WT4000 series of wearable mobile computers.

MCL-Collection is a high-productivity software environment for the development, integration and deployment of mobile worker applications. It supports a range of Symbol mobile computers and provides cross-platform compatibility and forward migration paths allowing customers to mix-and-match device platforms and form factors, and minimize their total cost of ownership. Now, customers can also easily create and deploy applications for the new Symbol WT4000 wearable mobile computer.

MCL-Collection with Vocollect Voice(TM), or simply MCL-Voice, is an add-on to MCL-Collection to seamlessly voice-enable any application created using MCL-Collection. Using speech recognition and voice synthesis, MCL-Voice brings voice input and output control to mobile worker applications while giving multimodal access to other technologies such as barcode scanners, touch screens, keyboards, imagers, weight scales, displays, and printers.

"The customer demand for MCL-Voice on Symbol's new WT4000 wearable mobile computer is significant," said Jean-Francois Jacques, Managing Director, MCL Technologies. "MCL's multimodal implementation of voice on the WT4000 offers customers the best of all worlds - an open-systems solution, hands-free operation, and the ability to deploy applications that combine voice recognition with other data capture technologies," Jean-Francois Jacques added. "Using MCL-Collection, MCL-Voice, and the WT4000, customers can easily deploy voice and non-voice hands-free solutions that streamline operating efficiencies, increase worker productivity, and improve data accuracy."

With its hands-free and highly ergonomic design, Symbol's WT4000 series of wearable mobile computers deliver increased productivity to industrial applications including distribution center order picking, receiving, replenishment, loading, maintenance and repair. Symbol's WT4000 wearable mobile computer is built to withstand the rigors of everyday use in the most demanding environments including dusty warehouse floors and cold storage freezers.

"Symbol's new wearable mobile computer offers multi-modal voice and data capabilities to increase productivity and improve worker satisfaction," said Brian Viscount, vice president for product marketing, Symbol's mobile computing division. "Our relationship with partners like MCL provides customers with the ability to deploy voice solutions for data accuracy and operational efficiencies."

MCL-Collection for Symbol's WT4000 series of mobile computers can be downloaded and operated in Demo Mode at http://www.mcl-collection.com.

About MCL Technologies

MCL Technologies is a recognized leader in delivering high-productivity software development tools for mobile workforce and barcode printing application development, deployment, and management. Its enterprise-ready, standards-based software suite, MCL-Collection, seamlessly integrates the latest technologies with mobile computer, multi-manufacturer, cross-platform compatibility. Through the integration of mobile computing, wireless infrastructures, barcode printing, and data capture technologies like barcode scanners, RFID, and voice recognition, MCL-Collection helps organizations deploy mission critical and on-demand multimodal applications to improve workforce productivity, reduce costs, and achieve competitive advantage.

More information at http://www.mcl-collection.com.

MCL Technologies is a competence center of Zetes Industries (Euronext Brussels: ZTS)